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Johnny Guitar [Blu-ray]

Joan Crawford (Actor), Sterling Hayden (Actor), Nicholas Ray (Director) Rated:

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An Arizona saloonkeeper and her gunfighter lover face a loudmouthed woman's mob. Directed by Nicholas Ray.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.37:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ OLIBROF448
Director ‏ : ‎ Nicholas Ray
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Original recording remastered
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 7, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ernest Borgnine
Studio ‏ : ‎ Olive Films
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0082LUGPI
Writers ‏ : ‎ Philip Yordan
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Watching Johnny Guitar During The Pandemic

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020

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I have been watching several high-budget classic westerns during the coronavirus quarantine including "Red River", "The Searchers", "The Wild Bunch", and the 1957 and 2007 versions of "The 3:10 to Yuma". These films are large-scaled affairs from major studios that have long been included on lists of the best American westerns and
best American films. These films offer much to think about in their interpretation of the United States and its promise.

At first glance, "Johnny Guitar" is in seeming contrast to these highly-regarded films. The film is a B movie released in 1954 by Republic Pictures, a small company known for cost-cutting and for the quick production of films designed for a large audience. Yet, "Johnny Guitar" is still a masterpiece and is also one of the strangest films in the western genre. The film is listed in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as well as on other listings of best American films.

Nicholas Ray directed this film which stars Sterling Hayden as the title character. But the real attractions in the film are the two female leads, Joan Crawford, who plays an ex-prostitute Vienna, who has built a saloon on the outskirts of an Arizona town in the path of an oncoming railroad and Mercedes McCambridge, who plays Emma, a wealthy rancher and a bitter enemy of Vienna. The story turns when Johnny Guitar, a former lover of Vienna's and a gunfighter under his name of Johnny Logan, comes to town to work for Vienna. His arrival helps precipitate a confrontation between Vienna and a local gang and the ranchers who want Vienna and the gang out of the way. The story intensifies quickly, leading to violence.

This film is, indeed, over-the-top, camp, and extreme. Vienna and Emma fight bitterly in part over a man in the gang. Many viewers see as well a smoldering love relationship between the two women. Both Crawford and McCambridge act brilliantly with their dislike for each other, (which extended beyond acting) palpable., McCambridge exudes both hatred and sexual frustration in her role as Emma, the unrepentant villain of the piece.. The costuming in the film is garish and becomes increasingly so as it proceeds. The story is flamboyant and wildly romantic in its feelings with sharp, brilliant dialog. The movie includes strong elements of film noir together with its feminism and its extreme characters and situations The women are the leading characters in this movie and dominate the men with their presence. The title song is performed throughout the film by Peggy Lee, who also wrote the lyrics, and has become famous in its own right.

"Johnny Guitar" is a strange film, particularly for its time, and may not be to the taste of every viewer. It shows the adaptability of the western genre to many different types of films and different ways of viewing the West. I loved it.

Robin Friedman

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Denny Dederick

Wasn't Expecting it to Be THAT Good

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018

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I'm 61 and I have a very hard time finding older westerns I haven't seen or at least don't remember seeing. It's amazing that for how popular this movie is I had never seen it till I just watched here on Prime. When I saw the title I was VERY familiar with the song Johnny Guitar. Like thousands of others I heard the song play over & over & over again while playing the video game Fallout: New Vegas. The song is one of the best songs in that game, and gives a very haunting and atmospheric quality to the game every time you hear it playing on the one lone radio station that survived the nuclear holocaust. They obviously only have a very small library of recordings that survived so the songs get played again & again. But I had no idea the movie itself was done so well and was such a riveting story. I had the idea it much more B than A. I'll tell you one thing, I can't remember the last time I hated a woman in a movie so much as that bloodthirsty psycho Emma. I was waiting for her demise more than anything else, and hoping it wasn't quick. The song gives the idea that Johnny dies in the end. So I kept expecting that to happen somehow. I was very glad to see that it had a great ending. I've always been a sucker for Happily Ever After.

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jediscoobs

joan in color

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2018

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lots of camp. joan with a gun, joan playing piano, joan on a horse, joan in charge!! not sure if she smiled in this picture, but i love her side-eyed stare down more! you can see how much disgust she has for the other female gang leader boss. this movie wasnt as famous as the hollywood scandal revolving around the two actresses, but who cares?? its joan f-ing crawford!!

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S. J. Volk

FEUDING JOAN & MERCEDES… NOW LOVERS IN HADES ?

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020

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“JOHNNY GUITAR”… This 1954 movie masterpiece brilliantly touches on every aspect of why we humans love to watch a movie. The reasons range from the superficial to the profound. Here are some of them:

—Dazzling color and breathtaking rugged vistas.
—A haunting musical score that warmly embraces the movie.
—The abrupt arrival of a tall stoic stranger in a small western town.
—The palpable presence of a fearless superhero.
—Sudden stormy weather that reflects the violence brewing indoors.
—Bright rapid-fire dialog that accelerates tension to explosive intensity.
—A Saloon brimming with volatile characters and raw emotion.
—The humiliating defeat of a loudmouth bully.
—A torrid past love affair rekindled.
—A strong dominant heroine.
—A fiery rage-filled hateful villainess.
—Fast-paced, non-stop action.
—Ruthlessly brilliant editing.
—A daring surprise rescue.
—Triumph of reason over mindless rage.
—The ultimate futility of greed.
—An inexorable, clean-cut denouement.
—A satisfying climax.
—Victory of love over hate.

Decades ahead of its time, “Johnny Guitar” is a uniquely dynamic quality production that pulsates wildly with style and substance. It is at once an overt artistic and subtle social triumph over savagery; and it continues to grow in classic cult status. On one level it’s a tour de force of our human progress toward equality. And on another level it’s a tribute to our growing awareness of humanity’s ultimate spiritual core of kindness. — s.j.volk

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KaleHawkwood

Explosions & waterfalls

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2017

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This totally bonkers western starts with a series of explosions in the dusty hills of Arizona, and ends with a cathartic gunfight and a clinch that is something of an anti-climax after so much overwrought, perverse craziness.
Not the least crazy is the casting, with Joan Crawford and the splendidly named Mercedes McCambridge {who hated each other} playing, respectively, domineering saloon owner Vienna, who has a lurid past, along with one or two lurid shirts, and the even more domineering, wild-eyed black-clad, aptly named Emma Small, not to mention the Dancin' Kid {Scott Brady, good}, an indecisive Marshall {Ward Bond}, a kid called Turkey {Ben Cooper, who looks about fourteen}, porcine Ernest Borgnine as an impatient, trigger-happy member of the Dancin' Kid's gang, and tall, blond, handsome Sterling Hayden excellent as the titular guitar-playing lone wolf hero ~ who, rare in films back then, looks like he is actually playing his instrument {even if he isn't}.
John Carradine and the great Royal Dano {always in support, but what support!} crop up in smaller roles too, as do western veteran Paul Fix and Welsh actor Rhys Williams. All do well in a movie that must have challenged their powers of belief-suspension as much as it does the viewer's.
The film had a troubled genesis, but it most definitely benefits from having the great Nicholas Ray in the director's chair, and a script that might be 50% sheer madness, but has a uniquely clipped poetry to it. Classily, you even get Peggy Lee singing the closing song.
The plot, such as it is, is flimsy and oblique, with plenty of symbolism ~ including an Edenic waterfall most of the cast pass through at least once ~ and best not investigated too intricately, not if you want to stay sane. The relationships between the characters are, at best, a moveable feast.
But this is still an insanely entertaining film {I'd advise watching it with the tipple of your choice to hand} with a cast you couldn't ~ hell, daren't ~ dream up if you tried. In fact, the least credible characters are the two female leads, though Crawford, who was a real trouper, remains watchable throughout, but McCambridge strains credibility to its limits. She looks like she's just been given a few whiskies and her own lines, and encouraged to give the maddest, most mannered performance she can. Or maybe she just read the script, had a good laugh, and thought, "To hell with this, I'm gonna give the most melodramatic reading of these crazy part as I can ~ and let someone dare stop me!"
Everyone should see this gaudy, oddly likeable western at least twice {you won't believe it first time around} and if, like me, you'd watch anything directed by Nick Ray, then it's mandatory viewing.

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William Hall

Joan is tops in unusual western

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2021

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There are some good, favourable reviews of 'Johnny Guitar' available , so I'll be brief. The title is a misnomer... Joan Crawford carries the film. While viewers have rightly commented on the views of Martin Scorsese, caught in an 'extra', nobody seems to have said that the dialogue is well written, especially for Crawford who has the perfect answer for anything thrown at her. You really sympathise with her, even in a remarkably lengthy conversation with her ex-lover, which must have wrong-footed audiences at the time.
Despite the odd hiccup, when you scratch your head, this is a very entertaining film . Print fine.

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A. W. Wilson

Johnny Guitar Universal DVD 2005

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2017

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It's all been said...hasn't it? The DVD Trucolour is good as is the sound, plus English Subtitles. Extras are an Intro by Martin Scorsese. I try and view it as a "Western with a difference" and leave the theorising to others. It is a crazy film, western or not, with Crawford at her scariest and oddest looking. Closely rivaled by McCambridge who really does scare you she is so ANGRY. What I like is the perhaps mysterious fact of the cast of truly great western character actors who all seem a bit out of place...Borgnine/Dano/Ben Cooper as Brady's gang. Bond, Frank Ferguson (very good), John Carradine, Ian McDonald, Sheb Wooley, Denver Pyle, Paul Fix, Will Wright who between them must notch up 100's of westerns and seem out of kilter with the rest of the bizarre plot. I have to recomend this as "essential viewing" to anyone who loves cinema, and western fans will find much to enjoy. Wonder why Nicholas Ray took it on!!

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Film Buff

One of the best westerns ever made

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2013

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This 1954 Nicholas Ray western must be ranked as one of the very best on grounds of originality alone. As Martin Scorsese points out in his introduction on the DVD the film breaks all of the rules of the genre, emphasizing emotion and melodramatic excess over the usual classic (re Fordian) simplicity of the Wild West. Women replace men as the main protagonists and by giving everything a very artificial feel (use of color, especially the anarchic use of the colors red, white, black and the muting of blue) and resorting to operatic excess, Ray conjurs up a film of many layers of interpretation. These have been elucidated elsewhere by other reviewers. Whether you see it as feminist tract, Freudian psycho-investigation or McCarthy allegory, it all amounts to an engrossing, fascinating Western experience like no other. The film was a huge influence on Sergio Leone in Once Upon a Time in the West, with characters named after musical instruments, a story revolving around the building of a railroad community and by the use of operatic conventions. Where Ennio Morricone invokes Wagner with his use of leitmotifs, giving each character a different theme, Ray invokes Verdi and Puccini with the film's 'chorus' scenes (the first group encounter at "Vienna's" is long and especially reminiscent of the Verdi of say Simon Boccanegra) and intimate arias and duets between characters, the composer Victor Young's music sweeping the action along with tremendous subtlety and gushing drama when required. The acting is extraordinarily melodramatic, especially that of the two leading ladies. Joan Crawford looks to have stepped straight out of a silent film (I thought also of Gloria Swanson in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard) while Mercedes McCambridge plays an evil harridan as if she was Countess Eboli from Verdi's Don Carlos or the Wicked Witch of the West from Fleming's The Wizard of Oz - take your pick! Every scene barring the outside chase scenes feels like an operatic set-piece and it would be easy to criticise the film for being too over the top (I can readily understand American 1954 audiences laughing at the time). That is beside the point for me, for without the use of operatic excess and melodrama Ray would not have been able to create his fabulously original mythic landscape which prompts all those different sub-texts which have engrossed film experts (critics and directors alike) ever since it came out. Ray's treatment of the script is entirely tied to its content as is shown by the fact that his other westerns are treated so differently. As for the DVD itself, the quality is fine. The sharp picture and lush colors really stick out and excite the senses. Recommended to all lovers of westerns. Visconti enthusiasts would probably love it, too.

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Darth Maciek

And now a gunfight catfight. In left corner, wearing red, Vienna the Tramp. In right corner, wearing black, Emma the Nutjob...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2014

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I liked this atypical and deservedly famous 1954 western. Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.

Somewhere in Arizona, in a little town whipped by winds, a tough aging saloonkeeper named Vienna (Joan Crawford, grandiose) struggles against the hostility of a local cattle baron John McIvers (Ward Bond), who doesn't appreciate her owning land and business in a place he considers as exclusive domain of himself and his cronies, like the owner of local bank. Even worse, the sister of the bank owner, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge, impressive), a woman probably mentally unbalanced, hates Vienna passionately for reasons which actually are not fully explained - and quite probably not fully known or understood even by herself...

Part of the reason for this hatred can be the jealousy - Emma indeed is fascinated (and in the same time repulsed) by Dancing Kid (Scott Brady), a guy who may or may not be a desperado but who certainly is a dashing dandy. Dancing Kid however always ignored Emma, but intensely courted Vienna... And then, one fateful and eventful day a mysterious stranger rides in the town looking for Vienna - he introduces himself as Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden)... And then the film really begins.

Being essentially a confrontation between two very tough and not very nice gals, both of whom carry guns and know how to use them, this is, let's say it again, a very atypical western. The introduction of element of madness - not a very frequent thing in Wild West stories - gives to it a very special taste. The irrational hatred Emma Small feels for Vienna allows for some moments which are really, really scary, even chilling as we can see the evil at work at its most vicious. In this film the great motivator is not the money, not the conflict of interests, not revenge and in fact not even jealousy - all those things either don't exist or are just pretexts - but simply a relentless will to destroy another human beings just BECAUSE!

The film has also some elements of parody - I found irresistible the scene in which a mysterious, dangerous looking stranger arrives to a lawless town, carrying for the only weapon a guitar...))) There are many winks to the clichés of the genre, but all containing some parodic elements. On another hand there are also some pretty tough scenes - including a lynching...

Joan Crawford was 50 when she turned this film - and gosh was she still hot, both when wearing virginal white and hellishly bright red! Sterling Hayden is excelellent as a Wild West troubadour who has a very special relationship with firearms - he avoids to touch them as much as possible and for a good reason (but I am not saying here why...) Mercedes McCambridge played here probably the role of her life as a woman who seems to be possessed by the devil - and it is probably not an accident that much later she was chosen to give her voice to the demon Pazuzu in "The exorcist"...)))

Maybe because it has some irrationality, grotesque and parody in it many people consider it as a major masterpiece - it certainly seems to be particularly liked by French intellectuals. Me however, I am unable to rate it as high. Of course it is a good, interesting film and I enjoyed watching it - but I consider it rather as an interesting oddity, rather than a classic of the genre. Still, a recommended viewing. Enjoy!

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